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Gluten-Free Spring Pea, Chicken & Mushroom Pasta

This easy gluten-free pea, chicken and mushroom pasta is the perfect springtime dinner! Bursting with healthy fresh spring produce and herbs, it’s creamy and delicious. I love spring! Summer has always been my favorite season and I kind of ignored the lowly spring. This year though, I’m living for it! Maybe it’s because I’m getting older, but I notice the longer days, the warmer weather and the signs of the earth coming to life all around me. Little purple flowers are popping up in my backyard. It’s light out after 6 pm. My sons are taking off their jackets and refusing to put them back on. Spring is in the air! Best of all – spring produce is popping up at the farmers market! My market is bursting with fresh herbs, mushrooms, peas, asparagus – you name it. So I came up with a delicious gluten-free chicken and mushroom pasta.…

Greek Chicken Kebabs Recipe (Paleo, Gluten-Free, Keto)

This Greek Chicken Kebabs Recipe features an easy fragrant herb & olive oil marinade, and charred veggies threaded between the juicy grilled chicken pieces! Low Carb, Keto, Paleo & Gluten-free. I could eat Greek food all day every day no problem. I love those bold, fresh, herby flavors and the fact that it is healthy but still tastes so flavorful. This Greek Chicken Kabobs recipe is one I have made a lot lately, especially since we started a weekly date night. Every Friday we make something that’s traditional in another country and if it were up to me, I would alternate between Mexico (hello, steak tacos and margaritas) and Greece. My favorite culinary destinations. This Greek Chicken Kebab recipe will save bbq season! As much as I love grilled chicken, let’s just admit that chicken breasts can be a little problematic. They can easily get dry and overcook within minutes, especially…

Cauliflower Potato Soup (Paleo, Gluten-Free, Low Carb)

This easy creamy cauliflower potato soup recipe is paleo, gluten-free, dairy-free and insanely delicious! It can easily be made low-carb and even keto! Top it with bacon, chives or whatever you feel like for loaded baked potato soup! Embrace soup season with this healthy Paleo Cauliflower Potato Soup! As much as I love summer and I’m sad to see it go, I’m doing my best to embrace soup season. I know people absolutely love fall and to be honest, I’ve never been one of them. But this year I’m determined to change all that! I’m embracing all things cozy: sweaters, cute boots, fall scented essential oils, pumpkin picking with my kids and ALL the cauliflower potato soup for dinner. Why you will love this paleo cauliflower potato soup: Which is actually great, because who knew cauliflower potato soup was so freaking easy to make? I don’t know why I don’t…

Keto Cabbage Lasagna

Why waste calories on tasteless store-bought lasagna noodles when you can enjoy a big portion of healthy low-carb & keto cabbage lasagna instead!? This quick and easy keto lasagna recipe is insanely good. I got the idea from my brother, whose coworker made it for him. He didn’t have the lasagna recipe but described it to me and this is what I came up with. Cabbage Lasagna may be the most genius keto recipe creation ever! In this easy keto lasagna, we didn’t miss the noodles at all. Admittedly, this low carb lasagna recipe might sound a bit strange since it’s made with steamed cabbage instead of lasagna noodles but trust me, it just works. Cooked cabbage has a similar texture and consistency to pasta, without adding hardly any carbs to your homemade lasagna. The steamed cabbage marries the cheese and meat sauce together perfectly. Guys, this keto cabbage lasagna…

How to plan the perfect Paleo Christmas Dinner

Learn how to host the ultimate Paleo Christmas dinner party! It’s all about planning ahead and picking the right recipes. I’ve got you covered!  Entertaining this Christmas? Here’s how to plan and host the perfect Paleo Christmas Dinner: For most of us, the holiday period means lots of socializing over drinks and food, all that glorious food. The holiday season can be a little intimidating! Especially if you’ve offered to host the celebrations in your own home! Definitely, the best way to make sure you can stick to your paleo lifestyle and still enjoy a fabulous Christmas dinner. This recipe collection will help you eliminate the stress that accompanies trying to please guests, while offering healthier, tasty paleo Christmas recipes that will leave everyone satisfied. The foundation of a great paleo Christmas dinner menu is meat and vegetables, cooked in ways that bring out their natural flavors instead of hiding them.…

Gluten-Free Mexican Pizza

I have a confession. I used to get drunk and go to Taco Bell as a teenager. The Mexican Pizza was my JAM. My friend Ali (still one of my closest friends) and I would blast Notorious B.I.G. and giggle and stuff our faces with Taco Bell. You see? This is why I needed to eventually become a nutritionist! I definitely needed a lifestyle change. Which leads to my new favorite recipe: Gluten-Free Mexican Pizza. Taco Bell is kind of notoriously bad food. They use horrible quality meat. In fact, their beef is only 88% beef. Curious what’s in the other 12%? You should be. Because it’s gross. maltodextrin (from GMO corn) tortula yeast (a processed yeast-like fungus) modified corn starch (more GMOs) soy lecithin (from GMO soy) sodium phosphate lactic acid caramel color (a carcinogen) trehalose (a preservative) Yes, Taco Bell beef has not one ingredient, but nine. Nine…

Paleo Steak Tacos

I eat tacos at least twice a week. These paleo steak  tacos are one of my faves and it’s one I keep on repeat. At least a few times a week my husband will come home and say “What’s for dinner? Is it f*cking tacos again?!” Don’t worry – he’s just kidding. He loves tacos, even though he makes fun of the amount I consume. Do you guys remember a few years ago when the taco diet was a thing? People were losing weight just eating tacos from Taco Bell of all places? TACO BELL. GRADE D MEAT. Meat that’s mostly made up of soy. Total garbage. But I thought to myself, this is a diet I can get on board with. Tacos all day? Sign me up! I’m not sure how tacos originally got the reputation as being a less than healthy food, but they’re actually quite nutritious, especially…

Meal Prep: Taco Salads

I’m tired. You guys – I am NOT the type to complain about my son. He’s awesome. He’s so much fun. But I’m going to be honest, he’s gotten up between 4-10 times in the night the past week and I’m just kind of tired. I KNOW babies wake in the night. We’re working on fixing this issue and it’s not a huge deal. But point being: holy hell am I glad I already meal prepped these taco salads. It’s so nice to just walk to my fridge, shake up one of these salads, pour it in a bowl and devour. Because it’s rill rill tasty. Honestly, they’re SO good. I didn’t use to love salads but that’s because I was doing them all wrong. Like most people, I loaded it with spinach or romaine and only a few other veggies like random tomatoes, some carrots and maybe some chicken.…

Asian Chicken Salad

Like I always do on Sunday, I make a bunch of food. I batch cook so that I’m not stuck trying to cook while simultaneously entertaining my son. Because frankly, I’m not that entertaining. I’m out after a couple rounds of peek-a-boo, and he’s over it before I am. Sometimes I feel like he’s already a teenager, he’s a master of the side-eye. So this past Sunday I made a bunch of chicken for lettuce wraps. I love me some lettuce wraps. My love affair with them started at PF Chang’s when I was 15. I’ve been a fiend ever since. I still love PF Chang’s, even though they use super questionable ingredients and maybe hurt my stomach a lot. Anyway, because I already made the chicken, this salad came together in under ten minutes. Seriously – batch cook on the weekends! It will save you so much time and…

Butternut Squash Carbonara

I recently found pre-made butternut squash noodles at Whole Foods – which I highly recommend. It’s A LOT easier than spiralizing that sucker yourself, but it is also a bit more expensive. It was a total impulse by for me and also totally worth it because it was really effin’ good. I immediately thought making butternut squash carbonara would be amazing – and I was right.  My favorite veggies to spiralize: potato, white or Japanese (I can’t stand sweet potatoes) cucumber carrot zucchini – I actually don’t eat zucchini because it hurts my stomach but I hear they’re absolutely delicious when spiralized This is my favorite spiralizer. It’s easy and actually a bit cheaper than other popular options. Butternut squash is a wonderful substitution for pasta for several reasons. First, it’s a vegetable. Butternut squash is a great source of: potassium folate B6 fiber folate vitamin C manganese Second, most pasta…